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200,000 year old human hair found in dung
Telegraph ^ | May 9, 2009 | Richard Gray

Posted on 05/09/2009 6:13:11 PM PDT by decimon

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To: decimon
the remains of an early species of human that was scavenged by hyaenas after death

Huge logical leap.

Hyenas used to be thought of only as scavengers. Recent research has found they are among the major predators of Africa. It's at least as logical that this person was killed and eaten by hyenas.

21 posted on 05/09/2009 6:42:13 PM PDT by Sherman Logan (Everyone has a right to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.)
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To: decimon
Palaeontologists found 40 strands of fossilised hair inside samples of coprolite, or fossilised dung, from a cave in South Africa that was used by brown hyaenas.

That is an amazing sentence from a purely english lexical syntax perspective. 7 nouns and 2 verbs.....

22 posted on 05/09/2009 6:42:21 PM PDT by central_va (www.15thVirginia.org Co. C, Patrick Henry Rifles)
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Weekend editor.


23 posted on 05/09/2009 6:49:22 PM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon

hyaena poo is where we ALL ended up until we started burying our dead.

And I do mean ALL of us.


24 posted on 05/09/2009 6:50:55 PM PDT by sinanju
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To: al baby
Judge for yourself...
25 posted on 05/09/2009 6:51:47 PM PDT by seanmerc
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To: SkyDancer

For some reason, HT and hyena poop just seem to go together...


26 posted on 05/09/2009 6:53:51 PM PDT by seanmerc
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To: SIDENET

What’s worse while the hyenas are eating your remains you’ll never know if they’re laughing at you or with you.


27 posted on 05/09/2009 6:54:13 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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hyaena poo is where we ALL ended up until we started burying our dead.

And I do mean ALL of us.

I distinctly recall being crow crap after a past life.

28 posted on 05/09/2009 6:58:00 PM PDT by decimon
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29 posted on 05/09/2009 6:58:23 PM PDT by seanmerc
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“why can’t people just believe what the Bible says about the earth being 6,000 years old and go from there I’ll never know.” ................................... Its a very simple answer, they just don’t believe it. Its like you not believing it was 200,000 years, or that the Koran is not the word of God. I see it as science trying to find an answer to a very difficult question that does not have a simple answer. Some people can not accept a simple answer, they want an in depth study. Whether or not the nomadic tribes of the dessert came up with the answer over 4000 years ago remains to be seen, but you can believe it if you are accepting their beliefs. Let the scientists continue their research, I’m still interested in the discovery of clam shells in the Alps, the newly discovered planets and galaxies, and the finding of ancient civilizations (They keep popping up, no mention of some of them until recently.).


30 posted on 05/09/2009 6:59:07 PM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (tagline under renovation, will return soon.)
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To: pctech

Think what else they’d have to believe. . .that they are sinners, in need of a Savior, etc. It’s not our nature to accept that.


31 posted on 05/09/2009 7:15:44 PM PDT by Marie2 (The second mouse gets the cheese.)
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“Why oh why can’t people just believe what the Bible says about the earth being 6,000 years old and go from there I’ll never know.”

Yeah. Remember when the church arrested people for saying the earth circles the sun, rather than vice versa?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei

I call it using all of the faculties God gave us.


32 posted on 05/09/2009 7:25:53 PM PDT by truth_seeker
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Regarding your Mother of All HTPs, here is a helpful link: http://tutorials.photobucket.com/tutorial_198.html

And to permanently eradicate that image from your hard drive, you can use Eraser.

33 posted on 05/09/2009 7:29:31 PM PDT by TChad
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Why oh why can’t people just believe what the Bible says about the earth being 6,000 years old and go from there I’ll never know.

The Bible doesn't say that, Bishop Usher did.

34 posted on 05/09/2009 7:30:43 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (Had God not driven man from the Garden of Eden the Sierra Club surely would have.)
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To: truth_seeker

I know there’s a good joke in there somewhere, but I can’t find it.


35 posted on 05/09/2009 7:31:12 PM PDT by shineon
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To: seanmerc

Bookmark! Bookmark!


36 posted on 05/09/2009 7:57:08 PM PDT by library user
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Early (Ancient) Hair Sample Raises Questions

""We came out with a dirt clod and inside the dirt clod was a human hair 14 inches long," she said. "It was so old there was no pigment."

"While scientists have yet to determine its age, the layer of soil it was in dates back 11,000 to 12,000 years.

37 posted on 05/09/2009 8:17:43 PM PDT by blam
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To: truth_seeker

Actually, in order for one object to be “circling” another, you have to assume that one is in a fixed position. Since modern science tells us that both the earth and the sun are in motion, its just as logical to say the sun is revolving around the earth as vice versa. Just sayin...


38 posted on 05/09/2009 8:20:08 PM PDT by dinoparty
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"Life’s a bitch and then you’re hyena crap."

I read a study done in England about water wells that are down hill from a cementary...the water in all the water wells (used in households) contained human protein.

39 posted on 05/09/2009 8:22:33 PM PDT by blam
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To: pctech

Said nothing about carbon dating; nor any other similar method. May have just been from geological dating.


40 posted on 05/09/2009 8:23:12 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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